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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/
Aaron was not charged with scraping public servers, he was charged with unauthorized access. He “hacked” the server. Meta just scraped publicly accessible information.
Bruh, can you lick metas boots any harder? There’s so many examples of them using unauthorized access even long before llm’s were a thing…but even if that wasn’t the case, they just fucking bragged about their “ai” hacking other companies. Stop spreading lies for the billionaires, it’s pathetic.
I am not “licking boots”, I am discussing facts. And I’m gonna keep doing it.
There’s so many examples of them using unauthorized access even long before llm’s were a thing
Sure, there’s an endless list of awful things they’ve done, but that’s not what’s being discussed here.
I’m not talking about random awful things they’ve done I’m talking specifically about unauthorized access issues which is literally what you named as being the difference. Get some reading comprehension.
I’m talking specifically about unauthorized access issues which is literally what you named as being the difference.
Correct, that is the difference between what I said and what the author said. The author is talking about scraping. Get some reading comprehension. You don’t even have to read the article, it’s literally in the title.
The article is trash, we’re talking about your comment, hence why I replied to you. You lied just like the article did.
If an AI company ignores robot.txt exclusions and scrapes a site, then turns around and sells that content as a service, is that unauthorized access?
Yes.